Wire fence



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.J. H. DOUGHERTY. WIRE FENCE.

No. 352,232. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT GrFicE.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Application filed June 15, 1886. Serial No. 205,243.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH H. DOUGHERTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wellington, in the county of Sumner and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Wire-Fence Pickets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to ornamental wirefence pickets; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described,and definitely pointed out in the claim.

One object of myinvention is to provide a fence-picket constructed of a single piece of wire bent and twisted together in such a manner as to form ornamental configurations, whereby, when the pickets are mounted, an artistic effect is produced.

A further object of my invention is to pro vide a series of loops at regular intervals on the picket, which are adapted to engage with and form a means of securenient for the strandwires or runners, thereby allowing a flat side of the picket, when mounted, to stand in the same plane as the said strandwires.

I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters indicate similar parts in .the several views, and in which Figure l is a front elevation of several of the pickets mounted upon the strand-wires. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of one of the pickets detached with portions of the strand-wires attached thereto. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line w as of Fig. 2.

A indicates the picket, which is formed of a single piece of wire. The wire is bent and twisted to form various artistic configurations, a, each of which is separated by a twisted portion, a, of the wire. At the parts of the pickets where it is adapted to have the strandwires cross a series of loops, a", are arranged,

which form a space, of, for the reception of the No. 352,232, dated November 9, 1886.

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said strand-wires. The strand wires B, as illustrated, are formed of two wires twisted by any suitable means.

It will be understood that posts or end stays will be used for supporting the wires B, and two wires are secured to one of said end posts and twisted. WVhen the wires are twisted a short distance from a post, (notshowm) one of the pickets A is inserted between the two strands of wire forming the runner, the said strands passing over the space a between the loops a in the front and rear of the picket, and the strands are then twisted, forming a loop, I), around the picket A at the point of crossing. The pickets A are inserted in this manner until the desired number have been set.

The picket is prevented from turning in the cross-wires, and head and intermediate loops, parallels, and ornamental openings are compelled to stand in alignment with the horizontal cross-wires.

By the construction of the picket with projecting guards at the crossings the horizontal cr0ss-wires are prevented from slipping up or down on the pickets.

The spaces between the cross-wires or runners at the point ofcrossing may be made by running the two Wires parallel from crossing to crossing without twisting them, or a short twist at each end and then parallel, or by a loop and continued twist, as shown.

My improved picket possesses great mechanical utility. The looped, angular, and parallel configurations not only present a pleasing appearance, but by their extensions on each side aless number to be used in filling ina desiredspace, strength and durability being given to the picket by the divisional twisted portion between each of the configurations.

I have described and illustrated the pickets formed ofa single bent wire and the runners of two strand-wires;. but it is obvious that the said pickets and runners may be formed of as many wires-as are desirable for'different ,uses

of pickets are required without in the least departing from'the nature and principle ,of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, an ornamental fence-picket made of wire strands bent and twisted to form various configurations, each separated from the other by a twisted portion, and provided at the parts where the line-wires are to cross with projecting guard- 

